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Alexa, spy on me

VILLAGE IDIOT

You’ve already heard the recent story: Amazon’s voice-activated Echo device secretly recorded a couple’s private conversations and then sent recordings to a random person. That’s the short version, and it has several things wrong with it.

First, of course Alexa is listening to you. How would it hear the wakeup word “Alexa” if it didn’t? It also records your every request — not to spy…

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